The cast changes. The relations keep coming back. Popular culture makes visible how complex adaptive systems persist through transformation.
A force built to exploit asymmetry now operates inside legal and informational systems capable of generating asymmetric effects upon it.
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Or
Ask a logician an “or” question and you may get the most annoying correct answer in existence: yes.
Tech CEOs mistake being rewarded by the machinery for understanding it. The resulting confusion is being offered as humanity’s only available future.
We built machines to finish our sentences. Now they are helping us finish the world.
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Holism and Climate Change
Climate change is not occurring inside a stable planetary system. It is altering the persistent structure of relations among climatic states, variables and phases, changing the conditions under which subsequent states become possible and probable.
Climate change is not a problem inside a stable planetary system. This text indicates how it is reorganising the relations through which planetary stability itself is reproduced.
Fascism does not begin with a dictator. It takes shape through recurrent patterns of threat, identity and authority, until a leader can occupy the position those patterns have made available.
The scale of the consequences has changed while the competitive selection tests for authority remain embarrassingly small.
We do not simply hear songs, speech and culture. Their repetition teaches us how to hear what comes next, while every new encounter quietly changes the pattern that taught us.
Desire and fear appear to pull us in opposite directions, but both persist through the distance they seek to overcome.
Trump depends upon the opposing media he seeks to exclude. Its opposition generates the conflict through which his political identity acquires force. The wizard needs the curtain, but he also needs someone on the other side insisting that we look behind it.
